We research the interrelationships between air quality, climate change, public health, and environmental policy. We use multi-disciplinary methods, drawing from epidemiology, exposure science, remote sensing, atmospheric chemistry and meteorology, numerical modeling, and economics.
Current projects:
Research and Engagement for Action on Climate and Health (REACH) Center
- PI: Susan Anenberg, Daniel Tong (George Mason University), Bob Orttung (GW), Sarah Vogel (Environmental Defense Fund)
- Sponsor: NIEHS P20
- Objective: Advance health research using large geospatial climate and environmental datasets
- https://reach.publichealth.gwu.edu/
Maryland EJSCREEN 4.0: Integration of Cumulative Impacts, Structural Racism and Discrimination, and Air Quality to Better Visualize and Assess Environmental Health Disparities
- PI: Sacoby Wilson (University of Maryland)
- Sponsor: NIEHS
- Objective: Improve Maryland EJSCREEN by including additional EJ indicators to better capture and quantify the overall burden and cumulative impact of environmental injustices.
Application of satellite observations in estimating NO2 concentrations and mortality burdens in the continental United States (CONUS) at small spatial scales
- PI: Susan Anenberg; FI: Soo-Yeon Kim
- Sponsor: NASA
- Objective: estimate surface-level NO2 concentrations, attributable mortality burdens, and inequities in the continental US, leveraging satellite NO2 observations with high spatiotemporal resolutions
Pushing the boundaries of fine-scale NOx emission quantification from remote sensing instruments
- PI: Dan Goldberg
- Sponsor: NASA
- Objective: Combine aircraft and satellite observations with high resolution models to evaluate the capabilities of current and future remote sensing instruments to quantify urban NOx emissions
Climate, Economics and Health: Adding air quality impacts into social cost of carbon estimates
- PI: Kevin Cromar (NYU)
- Sponsor: Wellcome Trust (subaward from NYU)
- Objective: Incorporate changes in air quality, and its associated health impacts, into estimates of the social cost of greenhouse used by federal policymakers in the US and Germany